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This was because HMRC's system could not cope with the volume of calls, but customers were not warned they were about to be cut off, nor were they called back, the report added.

From BBC

They explained that “because of his disorder, Lawler was freaked out by his contact with police, could not read the officers’ expressions, and thought he was about to be killed.”

From Slate

Bondi, however, has not given up stringing these people along with false hopes that all their QAnon fantasies are about to be proved true.

From Salon

As guests sat down on the red cinema-style seats in the screening room of a plush central London hotel, nobody could have imagined that, less than a month later, the BBC would find itself forced to apologise for serious and unacceptable flaws in the documentary that was about to be shown.

From BBC

The retention center has procedures that purportedly adhere to due process, but as in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Vladimir Sorokin’s “The Queue,” where bureaucracy stands in the way of getting anywhere, every time it seems like Sara’s time in the facility is about to be over, something trivial occurs to push her hearing date back, or to otherwise deny her release.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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